Yohei Nakajima

Month: October 2012

  • Upcoming Events in LA for Tech & Social Entrepreneurs

    October 26th. 9pm. Spooky Party Time Free. Wockano Santa Monica. October 29th. 7-11pm. Digital LA – Digital BOO! Halloween Party $15. ROC Santa Monica. October 30th. 6:30-9:30pm. #SocEntLA Tuesdays Free. Corkbar DTLA. November 8th. 10am-5pm. Small Business Expo 2012 Free. Downtown. November 9th. 9am-6pm. Silicon Beach Fest $185 (til Oct 27th) / $250. io/LA & […]

  • Series B Announcements Today: Udacity, WalkMe, Vizury, Dhingana

    From today: Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education Online Guidance System WalkMe Raises Another $5.5M To Make Sure That We Never Get Lost On A Website Again Nokia’s VC arm leads $9m Series B investment in travel-focused online marketing firm Vizury Dhingana raises $7M in Series B funding from Lightspeed, Helion […]

  • Overview of Online Education Startups

    Online Education is rapidly growing. It’s inspiring to hear about 14 year old kids half-way across the world taking (and passing!) MIT classes on circuit board wiring. Passing courses from a University prior to applying is becoming the hot new way for overachieving Highschool students to set themselves apart. The online education startup landscape is […]

  • Apple & Facebook are Happy. Netflix & Zynga are Sad. Nintendo is Doing Better. Platfora and iZettle Seem Really Cool.

    Apple announced the iPad mini amongst other great products yesterday, and people loved it. Old iPads are suddenly flooding the market. Facebook shares jumped 22% this morning from around $19 to $24, it’s the best day they’ve ever had on the public market. Zynga and Netflix on the other hand, are struggles. Zynga lays off […]

  • There’s Always Room for a Couple Cups of Coffee w Friends

    I don’t know where the origin of this story comes from, but I wanted to share it with you. I’ve accompanied this with some photos from our road trip up north. When things in your lives seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar […]

  • LA Startup News & Events – October

    I love watching the LA startup scene grow, check out this article by Mark Suster to see how you can take part: 12 Tips to Building a Successful Startup Community Where You Live. It’s important though, to remember and celebrate the tech industry growing worldwide. For more Tech News, check out TechGenius.me (http://techgenius.me), a news […]

  • Introducing TechGenius

    This is a post I wrote for the Instadat blog. For more news on big data follow @Instadat on Twitter or like us on Facebook. We’re excited to announce the beta launch of TechGenius (http://techgenius.me), our news aggregator and research tool for the tech industry that we’ve been building for the last two months. “What’s […]

  • Nom Nom Nom, Making Big Data Insights Consumable With Data Visualization

    This is a post I wrote for the Instadat blog. For more news on big data follow @Instadat on Twitter or like us on Facebook. Most people don’t like staring at excel sheets, with rows and rows of data. The visualization of data makes information and insights clear and quickly accessible. That’s why we love […]

  • Tokyo, Seattle, and Los Angeles as Tech Startup Hubs

    I don’t think it’s a coincidence that my name, Yohei, means “Pacific” as in the Pacific Ocean, and that the three cities I’ve lived in are Tokyo, Seattle, and Los Angeles. I do think it’s a coincidence though, that in the last three days I’ve come across three separate articles that mention my three home […]

  • LinkedIn Endorsements

    I suddently started receiving “endorsements” from people on LinkedIn, people I haven’t talked to in a while. Looked into it and realized that this is a new feature that rolled out this past week. Check out the LinkedIn Blog post on this, “Introducing LinkedIn Endorsements: Giving Kudos with Just One Click“. Recommendations do take a […]